Because it’s hideous. And not worth the money.
Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it… Not what you expect someone to pay for it.
As said it’s very mismatched. And as parts you really are taking the piddle a little… But, you will disagree, because “it cost you £x, so it’s worth £xx”.

Sell it on Pinkbike. That way you’ll get your asking price plus and paintball gun, an RC car and some old PS3 games… it’s even better than you could have ever hoped for… well you will until the kiddies stop messing you around and pull out 😉

Or put it on Gumtree and a Nigerian businessman will accidentally send you a cheque for £1,000,000 and ask for a refund of £999,999…

Spidey
a few people are taking the mick a bit, but you are ignoring the fact that you asked why your bike isnt selling, and it seems to be that EVERYONE thinks that you have MASSIVELY overpriced it. you want top money for something that isnt new.
and seeing as you complain about the users on here and then go onto the thread about “which fs should i get” and then have no positive input i dont think backs up your complaint about the way you think you have been treated on here

For new pricing, you need to be a shop with a returns/warranty service.
New unused parts are worth 75% of what you paid, RRP is meaningless.
Anything used but great condition is worth 50% of “what you paid”
Anything used and a bit worn is worth 30%.

It’s not new.. It’s all on a bike that you built. There for making them used. Not new… It’s really not hard logic to understand what everyone has told you surely?

Your “RRP / This is worth” crap is a waste of time.
That bike is only worth what someone will part cash with.
For instance, to me, that bike is worth no more than £100. That’s me personally. But that is because, I don’t like it (visually) and I don’t really want another SS… So that’s all I would pay for it. Someone else might like the look, and want a SS so might say they would give you £500.
See what I’m getting at?

I like Curtis as a brand and the bikes it produces, but for me those forks and Bar ends are plain wrong. Those forks look like they should be on a road bike and bar ends look like they belong in last century. Those tyres make it look used and old.

In terms of pricing – I’d look around and see what the cheapest I could get the parts for currently and base it on about 60-75% of that.

Good luck selling it. Personally I’d keep the bike and sell something else – perhaps you kids or car – if you need to raise some capital. The market dictates the price not the seller.

That double chainset on a S/S basically says you are too lazy to take of a chainring and change the bolts. And it looks horrible.

Same with the dirty tyres, too lazy to clean the bike before selling it.

Same with the advert, comes across lazy.

And the build is lazy and mismatched all round.

If you are too lazy to do all that, how lazy were you with the rest of the build that we can’t see? Did you hammer the CK headset in? Did you cut the steerer with a blunt woodsaw and no guide? Did you use new washers / olives when you shortened the brake hoses?

IMHO you can loose 50% of the street price of the part just by opening the packaging and screwing it to a bike. Bikes and bike parts depreciate really quickly, quicker than cars, quicker than almost anything.

Also, wheel size is not the most current anymore, like it or lump it. Bar ends don’t help the bike look, although I am with you and use them on a practical bike, I’d take em off for a sales photo.

Throwing a strop because this is pointed out numerous times is not worth it. Opinion asked -> opinion given.

A quick analogy: if i spent £2700 on a meal with all my favourite ingredients, cooked the way i like, I wouldn’t have the cheek to charge you £1000 for the dirty great steamer that refuses to flush the next morning. That doesn’t mean i didn’t enjoy the meal, just that it wasn’t an investment and you probably wouldn’t have enjoyed it as much. I have strange tastes, you see?

Take or leave the advice, but you should know that if you throw teddies around in here expect some stones to come back!

Frame £300-£350 absolute max for me. It is unique and interesting but not worth more than some of the other steel offering you could buy new. £350 buys a big name used full sus frame secondhand too. I still feel that is a generous price though 😕

Forks £120. Kind of cool but the same forks can be purchased from other manufacturers new for comparable prices, they aren’t all that light in reality and there’s so many good value rigid forks out there at the moment.

Brakes £150 at most. Seeing as I bought a full XTR set new for £240 (£300 currently on Merlin before other discounts) and R1’s can be had new for £250-280 there’s no way the asking price is attractive.

Chainset £140 max. It feels a generous price but probably fair to the seller. Again, I bought the same chainset for £150 on CRC so the asking price is ambitious. At the moment there a display one on CRC for £180 (albeit no BB). Whichever way you look at is £250 is very ambitious.

You’ve actually managed something absolutely unique with that build. And it’s quite an achievement!!Previously, all the Curtis frames posted up on here have been beautiful looking things. Works of art in some cases!

It might actually be improved by some old steel on-one forks, at least they’d fit with the ‘look’. Thompson stem and post and it wouldn’t look half bad.

I spent almost as much as you claim on my Pitch which I’m half-arsedly (not) selling for £1100. So how i managed to get a FS bike, lyrics, reverb, gears, and all that jazz for what you managed to spend on a rigid FS I’ve no idea, my SS has more nice bits on it than that and its worth £500 at most! I got it for £550 when the original owner took it for a ride and decided he didn’t like it having spent over a grand on it, so he’d lost a much in one ride as I’ll ever lose if I gave it away! That’s how much bikes depreciate when ‘new’.

TBH I think what the OP was attempting was what is known in the housing market as “flipping” Buying low and either relying on a buoyant market to bump the value up for free, or fixing up the property, a coat of magnolia and a new hob, hoping for a leap in value when a nicely finished property returns to the market… not sure how common this is these days since the arse fell out of flogging houses.

Of course this is bicycle so I don’t think the same scam marketing techniques will work.

Very few people in your target market are likely to be unaware of the rough value of the bike you are presenting for sale and most can operate Google quite deftly to get a better fix on its monetary value.

I actually never had any want to sell but a motorcycle accident has initiated the fact that this is and will go unused by myself.
Am sick of all negative comments, for those who preach and go onto someone’s for sale thread or other threads to then slate the item is an all time low.

Slating your item is an all time low? You must live a cherished life mate.

As a few folk have already mentioned, very politely in my opinion, your stuff is over priced and thats all. No need to get stressed about it, chill out and simply re-advertise at 60-70% of your original asking price. If it/they still doesn’t/dont sell knock a bit more of until it does.

Best of luck with your sale, may be an idea to stop slating prospective buyers on this thread though 🙄

This thread is not your For Sale thread. It’s where you came to ask “why is my bike not selling”. Plenty of people have offered an opinion, some have taken the piss. This is STW. Expect no less. Advice was offered which you rebuked or argued with from page 1. Just because you love your bike it doesn’t mean anyone else has to.

Your for sale threads have been commented on, you may say unfairly, but that goes with the territory of reposting the same things time and again. IT IS NOT SELLING!!!!! Lower the price or put it in the shed and wait for it to become a classic.

You have a VERY niche bike that is not selling. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so it’s said. To say its unusual is being kind. The bike as a whole is not “worth” what you paid for it. Let alone RRP.

This sale of yours is starting to turn in to the sale thread with the Surly and the gopping shoes.

As for that comment above re:which one is it, check your inbox and if you’d like to meet up, I’ll put you straight about it alright

I’m beginning to get a whiff of the troll, because NO ONE is stupid and childish enough to make keyboard warrior threats in a forum in 2013, are they? That’s so last decade, right? Or are you getting all meta, arch and ironic and I’m too thick to get it?

Maybe when you grow up you’ll look back on this thread and this saga and cringe. Great value reading, though.